On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and the Medicare ...

Researchers explain Care Coordination and Collaboration Programs in Oncology, which use patient navigators to ease disparities in cancer care for Native American patients.

Physician leadership is ideal in collaborative care teams, this CMO says. At Northwell Health, clinical teams function most effectively when they are physician-led, with multidisciplinary team members ...

In a healthcare system already stretched thin by rising costs, staff burnout, and fragmented post-acute care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is upping the ante. Beginning January 1 ...

On Jan. 1, CMS will begin implementation of a new alternative payment system for select hospitals. The Transforming Episode Accountability Model will hold participating hospitals responsible for the ...

In this conversation, John Muir Health's Jeremy Fish, M.D., director of the Family Medicine Residency Program, and Pilar Corcoran-Lozano, PsyD, behavioral health corps faculty and supervising ...

Beginning at the End? Rethinking the Timing of Enrollment Into Early Phase Clinical Trials Specifically, we propose a coordinated care cancer survivorship model that engages patients and clinicians ...

Beau Raymond, MD, elaborates on what successful patient-centered care entails, highlighting the role of patients to not only judge the success of their own care but also help guide clinicians as they ...

Home healthcare nurse checks a patient's vital signs. She is recovering at home from a recent surgery. Medicare’s new hospital payment experiment, which it calls TEAM (Transforming Episode ...

In a webinar on Feb. 28, 2012, Robert Farrar, MD, JD, FCLM, vice president of medical affairs for Somnia Anesthesia; Brent Sommer, a CRNA at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif.; and ...